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UPDATED Tuesday 1/8/19 12PM ET to include full set of updated charts. Welcome to BuzzAngle Music’s 2018 report on U.S. music consumption. For the second year in a row, overall consumption growth was up double-digits. 2018 total consumption showed a 16.2% increase over 2017, which we showed last year to be up 12.8% over 2016. On-demand audio stream consumption continued…

BuzzAngle Music 2017 Year-End Reports Welcome to BuzzAngle Music’s 2017 reports on U.S. and Canada music consumption. In the U.S., there was a significant increase in overall consumption, an outstanding 12.8% over 2016 that marks the third year in a row with increasing growth. Audio stream consumption continued its explosive expansion with a 50.3% increase to 377B streams, an amazing…

We have announced a far-reaching metadata licensing agreement with TiVo, specifically the division that was formerly known as Rovi. The quality of the TiVo metadata – genre classification, release dates, artist names and linking, cover art, qualitative measures such as mood and tempo, among thousands of other attributes – is unmatched in the industry. The pairing of the TiVo metadata…